RESEARCH PROJECTS

The Center is initiating several studies on SMS (texting) across cultures following the research conducted by Robert Shuter and Sumana Chattopadhyay on emerging interpersonal norms of text messaging in India and the US published in the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, July 2010, 39, 121-145. Study one focuses on emerging interpersonal norms of text messaging/SMS in Europe and the US, and examines European “textiquettes” (etiquette) associated with SMS/texting in selected European countries and the US. European and US research teams are conducting the investigation, co-directed by Robert Shuter (USA) and Povl Henningsen (Denmark). This research aims to increase global understanding of how culture influences the use of new media within and across cultures.Study two explores text messaging within the US among African Americans and European Americans. It examines the social functions of text messaging within and across US co-cultures to illuminate the following questions: (1) Do African-Americans and Euro-Americans engage in interracial texting? (2) What is the content and language used (digibonics) of interracial text messages? (3) Do African Americans and Euro-Americans vary their content and language (digibonics) when text messaging within their co-culture rather than across co-cultures?

Two ground breaking publications on intercultural new media research are being prepared by Robert Shuter: (1) Forum on Intercultural New Media Research in the Journal of International and intercultural Communication, to be published in 2011, and (2) 2012 special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research (Taylor & Francis). Click here for more information.

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